Imagery
Tell the definition and difference between kinesthetic and kinetic and give an example of each of them.
images of general motion are kinetic, while kinesthetic is applied to human or animal movement.
"My life has been the poem I would have writ
But I could not both live and utter it."
Analyze the metaphor(or simile) in the poem in 20s.
simile, it uses characteristics of "the poem I would have writ" to refer to life.
What does "The Sword of Damocles" allude to?
Everything has both good and downside.
Which one of the statements is false for Prosody?
A. Prosody includes the elements such as rhyme, melody, and rhythm.
B. Alliteration is part of prosody.
C. The use of stress is always important.
D. Prosody can be used in literature, song, and speech.
C (Japanese Haiku not always follow the stress)
First autumn morning
the mirror I stare into
shows my father’s face.
What is the deep meaning in this Haiku Peom?
A. The writer shows his sudden awareness of his connection to his father which occurs as the seasons change:
B. The author was surprised to see his father coming to visit him without any notice.
C. The writer missed his father much, that he couldn’t stop thinking of him during the first morning in fall.
A. The writer shows his sudden awareness of his connection to his father which occurs as the seasons change:
I came inside because the house smells like a chocolate brownie.
A- Imagery
B- Simile
C- hyperbole
D- Metaphor
A
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
What does the metaphor in the last line, "Lethe-wards had sunk" refers to? Answer it in 30s.
In here, Lethe-wards refers to the feeling of being influenced by drugs.
What does "Carrot and stick" allude to?
(answer in 20s)
Policies which benefits and punishment exist at the same time.
Twinkle,twinkle,little,star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle,twinkle,little,star,
How I wonder what you are!
What is the rhyme of these 5 verses?
（eg: abab）
(answer it in 60s)
aabbaa
The old pond;
A frog jumps in:
Sound of water.
How does Matsuo Basho show the vitality of nature?
The combination of silent pond and the moving frog. (similar meaning is ok)
Where can imagery be found:
A. Short stories
B. Poetry
C. Fables
D. Novels
E. Micro-novel.
F. All the above
F
Gives 2 metaphors of tea.
(25s)
etc.
How could the allusion about Adam and Eve commonly be used?
A: committing a sin
B: being in love
C: lured by others
D: above all
A
"Nor lose possesion of that fair thou ow'st"
How many feet in this verse?(e.g. trimeter)
pentameter
Like crunchy cornflakes
Gold leaves rustle underfoot
Beauty in decay.
--Paul Holmes
What is the "everyday" part in this haiku?
Like crunchy cornflakes
"I caught snowflakes
on my fingertips
but they melted
to my dismay.
I could not hold on
to something
that did not want
to stay."
Points out all of the imageries in formal form(like visual instead of "see" etc.) in 20 second.
visual, tactile, kinesthetic, kinetic.
Her silver saddle would shimmer across the sky.
What F.O.S is used in this sentence？
Alliteration
“Then leaf subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.” (By Robert Frost). Eden refers to the Biblical Garden of Eden. What’s the allusion meaning here?
to strengthen this idea that nothing—not even Paradise—can last forever.
“Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,' said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice.”
Do these verses contain the following figures of speech
A. Onomatopoeia
B. Rhymes
C. Assonance
D. None
C
Yellow flame flickers
Shadows dance upon the wall
Love grows ever strong.
--Paul Holmes
How does Paul Holmes show the development of love?
Use the action and color of vital flame.
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air –
Between the Heaves of Storm –
The Eyes around – had wrung them dry –
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset – when the King
Be witnessed – in the Room –
I willed my Keepsakes – Signed away
What portion of me be
Assignable – and then it was
There interposed a Fly –
With Blue – uncertain – stumbling Buzz –
Between the light – and me –
And then the Windows failed – and then
I could not see to see –
Analyze the four imageries which exists in the poem in 50 second.
kinetic(Line 13): With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz-
kinesthetic(Line 6): Breaths were gathering firm
visual(Line 14): Between the light - and me -
auditory(Line 1): I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
The truck groaned under the weight of its load.
What F.O.S is used in this sentence？
Personification, Onomatopoeia
“Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et Decorum Est. This poem was written by Wilfred Owen in 1915. Dulce et Decorum Est means that that it is sweet and right to die for your country. What is the allusion here for?
World War I
Write a two-verses poem using iambic pentameter with consonance.
(answer the question in 60s)
ETC.
Please analyze the satori of the poem.
Lighting one candle
with another candle--
spring evening.
-Matsuo Basho
A. The author is enjoying the silence spreading with the lighting of candles during spring evening.
B. Light in the evening of spring indicates the death of lives in spring to summer, just like the candles lightened up one by one.
C. Life appears in around the end spring one by one, just like the candle.
C. Life appears in around the end spring one by one, just like the candle. (The spring evening refers to the end of spring, while the light of candle symbolizes the appearance of life)